So we packed up friday morning and headed east. Eastern Washington is full of these rolling hills of hay, wheat and barley. Since it's late in the season they are all brown but still look like this:
Ally wanted to stop and smell the flowers along the way, so we made a stop in "Historic" Pomeroy.
About four hours after starting the trip we were finally at our destination, or at least where we were staying for the weekend.
But we would get to our real destination the next day when we drove about 45 minutes north to Pullman,WA, the home of Washington State University and more importantly, home to:
That's right, not just some local namby pamby lentil fesitval, but the NATIONAL lentil festival. I know, jealous,right? Well get over it, it wasn't all that great. But they did have a big parade. And just like Santa brings up the rear at all the Thanksgiving/Christmas parades, the lentil parade was finished off with a visit from the one and only Tase T. Lentil. Karen and Ally were lucky enough to get their picture taken with him after the parade.
Unfortunately they were all out of lentil festival merchandise which means all my family will have to wait until next year for their
lentil fest tote bags and note cards. And that also means that I wasn't able to get my commemorative poster, which I think would have looked great framed and hanging on a wall in our new house, but we still had a fun weekend and look forward to going back to Hell's Gate (a great campground, by the way) next year when all the rolling hills are green.
2 comments:
Wow. I wish I was able to take weekend road trips to lentil festivals.
polola?? estas confundido..la que viste in el foto no es...ya sabes.
cuando se mudaron a washington? estan cercita a alaska...porque no vienen para una visita?
love the posts.
sego
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